19-year-old from Toms River dies

Fell from apartment platform in West Virginia above nightclub

8:33 AM,
Apr. 11, 2012

Brian Weithenauer

Written by

Charles Webster
and Kristi Funderburk

Brian Weithenauer loved sports and music, and was always talking on long trips.

"He was a kid that everybody liked," his father, John Weithenauer, said Tuesday. "He was a kid that never had a bad thing to say about anybody. He was always smiling and funny."

Weithenauer, 19, died at about 1 a.m. Sunday morning after falling from an apartment platform above the Rain nightclub in Morgantown, W.Va., where he was a sophomore at West Virginia University, Morgantown police Chief Ed Preston said. He died from his injuries at an area hospital, Preston said. ...